jueves, 28 de junio de 2012

This cross-European research project plans to study the
dynamics of a number of late-medieval Dutch, English, French
and German miscellany manuscripts, focusing on the highly
mobile short verse narratives they contain.

Characterised by
the migration of works from one manuscript context to
another, this cultural phenomenon is ideally suited to the
HERA JRP theme 'Cultural Dynamics'. In each unique, newly
formed text collection new meanings are generated, enabling
us to understand the cultural identity of the compiler or
commissioner of a manuscript and to investigate how
cultural, social and moral heritage is conveyed to new
generations.

The comparative, multilingual approach will make it
possible to determine trans-European characteristics in the
organisation of text collections and to analyse how new
author and reader identities are created.

The research is
conducted by 4 PhD students, 2 Post-doctoral and 4 senior
researchers in close collaboration, and will culminate in a
large-scale conference.

The Oxford/Cambridge International
Chronicles Symposium (OCICS) is a biennial conference devoted to the
interdisciplinary study of chronicles in the medieval and Early Modern
periods. It provides a forum for discussions of historical and related
texts written across a range of languages, periods, and places. It seeks
to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide, and aims to encourage collaboration between researchers working in a variety of
disciplines from around the globe.

2012
marks the first year that OCICS will take place at the University of
Oxford. It follows two highly successful conferences hosted at the
University of Cambridge, first in 2008 and then in 2010.

The theme for the 2012 conference is 'Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles'. Keynote
addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool), Prof
Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge), and Dr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford).
The conference will take place at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and
Byzantine Studies. For more details, please see our 'programme' page.

OCICS
2012 is organized by Juliana Dresvina, Jaclyn Rajsic, Ilya Afanasyev,
and Hugh Reid, affiliates of the University of Oxford.

The Monastic
Manuscript Project is a database of descriptions of manuscripts that
contain texts relevant for the study of early medieval monasticism, especially
monastic rules, ascetic treatises, vitae patrum-texts and texts related to
monastic reforms. We provide lists of manuscripts for each of these texts,
which are linked to manuscript descriptions. The purpose is to offer a tool for
reconstructing not only the manuscript dissemination of early medieval monastic
texts but also to give access to the specific contexts in which a text appears.

The database supports current edition projects and draws
attention to understudied texts and the transmission of fragments, excerpts and
florilegia. It is designed to facilitate the work of students and scholars who
are interested in the history and reception of texts and who want to work with
manuscripts rather than rely on modern editions.

Most pages provide links to a number of web resources, such
as manuscript catalogues, online texts and translations, digitized manuscripts
and repertoria. Manuscript descriptions are usually based on published
manuscript catalogues and secondary literature. We hope to replace these
often incomplete and inaccurate descriptions with new ones that are based on
hands on studies of the manuscripts themselves.

The Monastic Manuscript Project is conceptualized as a
'Wiki' project. Every student or scholar who works on monastic manuscripts is
invited to contribute new manuscript descriptions, to fill in gaps and to
submit additions and corrections to existing pages. Eventually the project will
become a forum for collaborative work and the presentation of new research.

The database currently can be searched for authors, texts,
manuscripts, incipits, genres, and provenances. Other inquiries, about scripts
or on CLA numbers, for example, can be carried out with the site search
function (below).

The Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing
(IDE) organized together with the
Institut für Germanistik of TU Chemnitz a Summer School

*Digital Editing – Advanced Methods and Technologies*.

It takes place 8–12 October 2012 in Chemnitz (Germany).

The school adresses scholars working on any kind of
edition (historical, philological) who have already a basic experience in the
concepts and standard technologies of digital editing. It deals with sofwarte
tools and more complex coding schemes and techniques zu preparte and in
particular publish their editions.

Further informations (progam, modalities of inscription)
can be found here.

The conference will bring a new and multi-disciplinary focus to the late
medieval miscellany, a little-investigated and poorly understood type
of manuscript. Typically such manuscripts present a range of contents
in prose and verse (literary, historical, devotional, medical, and
practical texts) in the various languages of later medieval Britain
(Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Middle Welsh, Middle Scots). The
discussion will address four main inter-related concerns: how to achieve
a definition for the miscellany which distinguishes it from other
mixed-content manuscripts (anthologies, collections, composite volumes);
how make manuscript miscellanies and their textual contents accessible
to modern readers, including scholars, students, archivists, and general
readers; how to develop a coherent scholarly methodology for dealing
with volumes whose contents are intrinsically multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary; how to understand and represent the complex
relationships between manuscript miscellanies.

In 2012, LRBS will be running for two weeks: 25 June to 29 June and 2 to 6 July.

Each course on offer will consist of thirteen seminars, amounting in
all to twenty hours of teaching time spread between Monday afternoon and
Friday afternoon. It is therefore only possible to take one course per
week. There will be timetabled 'library time' that will allow students
to explore the rich resources of the University's Senate House Library,
one of the UK's major research libraries.

There will also be an evening programme with an opening reception and
talk, a book history lecture, and receptions hosted by major London
antiquarian booksellers.

The SCRIPTO programme at Friedrich Alexander University
Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented
introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their
interpretation. It combines research and instruction within the
framework of a uniquely innovative course of European, not to say
world-wide, interest, at the end of which each candidate will be
awarded a diploma from Friedrich-Alexander University.

SCRIPTO V will run from April 22nd 2013 until June 29th 2013. The application deadline is 1. March 2013.

sábado, 16 de junio de 2012

The University of
Oklahoma Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce a
paper call for one session:

Manuscripts and Their Context
in Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century England

This session invites
exploration and interpretation of the situation of thirteenth-, fourteenth-,
and fifteenth century texts in England within the context of specific
manuscripts.

The study of manuscripts by literary scholars has risen in
prominence throughout the past few decades, as seen in the work of exemplary
scholars such as Andrew Taylor, Sylvia Huot, Keith Busby, and Derek Pearsall.

As products of the culture within which they were produced, manuscripts encoded
cultural meaning, communicating the social status of the patron, mapping the
social and cultural reception and dissemination of texts, illustrating regional
preferences and identities, and creating intertextual (and sometimes
multilingual) relationships between various texts and images.

This session
seeks work from any perspective on manuscripts from thirteenth- to
fifteenth-century England.

During the medieval and
early modern periods, the Bible was a source of worship, instruction, and
entertainment. This panel invites papers that address ways the Bible was read,
misread, adapted, or performed. A variety of approaches and perspectives are welcomed.
Topics might include translation and adaptation, Bible illustration, the
commentary tradition, biblical exempla, apocryphal narrative, and drama.

The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the
Association's tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and
generative location. The 44th annual event will be held in historic Boston,
Massachusetts, a city known for its national and maritime history, academic
facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food scenes, and blend of
architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston Commons and the
Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and guest speakers,
literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops.

domingo, 10 de junio de 2012

The Ars edendi Programme at the University of Stockholm is funding a project on MS Vaticanus graecus 752 as part of its brief of furthering both practical and theoretical research in the field of medieval textual scholarship.

This workshop is dedicated to bringing together an international group of scholars to discuss the manuscript from a multi-disciplinary perspective as a first step in the planning and development of a web-based model for its integral edition.

Written in Constantinople in 1059, this Psalter manuscript challenges the editor by presenting an intricate interaction between text and images, whose themes and captions are sourced from the ad hoc commentary appended to the biblical text. At the same time, editing a catena poses its own problems, derived from the lack of critically edited sources, here mainly consisting of Hesychius of Jerusalem’s commentaries. Sensitivity to these issues, presenting no ready-made solutions, and an openness to discuss different approaches to this complex and significant manuscript should result in an enriching experience for all involved from their respective areas of expertise.